An Unseen Attraction by KJ Charles

[lightreads]

An Unseen Attraction

3/5. M/M historical romance. A boarding house keeper and one of his lodgers, an animal preserver, become involved with each other and a scandal over an inheritance.

Not my favorite Charles, but the quality of her work is such that it’s worth finishing a romance that is not to my taste. And that’s not something I can say of most published M/M authors. The two main characters are just so specific and particular – one is not neurotypical and the other is an artist of a truly unusual sort. They’re both excellent weirdos, basically, and their weirdnesses somehow end up working. They have a nice, mostly domestic dynamic with a streak of powerplay with the emphasis on the play. The sort of romance that made me smile in passing but that didn’t grab me by the limbic system.

Comments

[norah]

Agreed again! I would think you and I were of one mind re: fiction if I hadn't just bounced SO HARD off Too Like The Lightning in the initial chapter.

[lightreads]

Lol, a lot of people can't swing that one. It is a very very particular taste.

[norah]

I'm also noticing that I tend to be more critical of books - and need much faster pacing - if I listen on audiobook. Maybe in print I could have absorbed the info and bulled past the part that wasn't working to get to one that could? But in audio I was just like "NOPE."

Or maybe if I could listen to audiobooks at the speed you do! I get any further than 1.25x and my brain stops processing.

[lightreads]

Tbf my audio reading speed is widely variable with the ambient noise, my general level of exhaustion, narrator gender, narrator accent, how boring the book is, etc. But yeah, there are definitely audiobooks I would not finish if I could not speed them up a lot.